Rhythm vs Vanilla Music
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Rhythm
Your Music, Your Rhythm Open-source Material You music player with audiophile-grade audio, zero tracking, and zero ads. š Sound That Moves You ā¢ Bit Perfect Playback ā pure audio sent direct to your hardware ā¢ 10-Band Equalizer + 6,000+ AutoEQ device presets ā¢ Gapless playback, EAC3-JOC/Dolby Atmos codec support ā¢ FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AAC, Opus, WAV, OGG & more šØ Design That Delights ā¢ Material 3 Expressive ā adaptive shapes, fluid motion ā¢ Material You dynamic colors from your wallpaper (Android 12+) ā¢ Album-art-driven player colors & immersive lyrics view ā¢ Home screen widgets with responsive Material 3 layouts š Library Power ā¢ Multi-select batch actions ā queue, share, delete at once ā¢ Shuffle whole albums in correct track order ā¢ Full-scan media scanner ā reliable, no songs missed ā¢ Songs, Albums, Artists, Genres, Playlists, Folders š¤ Lyrics & Metadata ā¢ Synced lyrics via LRCLib with word-by-word highlighting ā¢ Local lyrics editor for custom offsets and edits ā¢ Full metadata editor with artwork support āļø Power Features ā¢ Sleep timer, queue management, M3U import/export ā¢ Settings search, playback stats, Android Auto ā¢ Deezer & YouTube Music artwork integration ā¢ In-app auto-updates from GitHub š Privacy First No ads. No analytics. No accounts. 100% offline-capable. GPL v3. š„ Get it on GitHub, F-Droid & IzzyOnDroid ā Google Play coming soon ā
Vanilla Music
Music player with a simple interface similar to the stock music player. Supports browsing by folder, queueing, shake-to-skip and more. Supports the same audio formats as the stock music player since the system media APIs are used. This is a fork of https://f-droid.org/packages/org.kreed.vanilla which is no longer being developed by its author. We keep that in the repo as it supports Android versions below 4.0.3.
| Feature | Rhythm | Vanilla Music |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | MusicMedia PlayerVideo | MusicMedia PlayerVideo |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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